Military Surplus Stores Cash In On Doomsday Preppers

I've been hearing doomsday is right around the corner , since I was old enough to understand what it meant. If it comes, it comes. No matter how much food or weapons I buy, they won't stop it. These people have to be a brick shy of a load.

About the only things this surplus store doesn’t sell is tinfoil hats.
“Preppers” – as in “preparing for an apocalypse” – are an eerily steady part of the clientele at M&G, a military supply surplus store on Granby Street.

War, terrorist attacks, ominous calendar dates (remember Y2K?) — even elections — can spike their numbers. In between, they arrive in a reliable trickle: two or three customers a week looking for gas masks, chemical suits and food rations.